The ordered arrangement of nuclear materials in space and void is what makes nuclear reactors and nuclear weapons work; and the ordered arrangement of mass and void is what makes the art of sculpture work.' By working on a double scale--by attempting to shape the atomic structure of materials through radioactive 'transmutation' as well as by producing reliquaries and monstrances for the preservation of those materials--Acord's ambitious project took nuclear-era sculpture in an entirely new direction.

Second Hand: Reused Jewellery in Baroque Monstrances

Some even need to recover sacred items like statues and monstrances that had been removed while the church was closed.

They ranged from golden earrings and wedding rings to sports shirts and soccer balls, bicycles, bullfighting regalia, and bejeweled monstrances. There was also John Paul II's papal habit and personal rosary that he used to pray when he was hospitalized, as well as the bullet that nearly felled him.

Although not on show, that 'sculptured' skull is adorned with diamonds, just like relics and monstrances in the Catholic tradition.

To the Cornish Protestant Arthur Quiller-Couch, editor of the Oxford Book of English Verse, the chalices and monstrances of the Meynells' poet-prophet appeared as recondite as Yeats's private mythologies had been to Thompson.

Whatever they saw in the vials and monstrances held out to them, they revered it as sanguis Christi offered pro nobis on Calvary.

Crucifixes, candlesticks, and holy water stoups, after all, weren't his bag; thuribles, chalices and monstrances, not his cup of tea.

Chalices, monstrances and papal processional crosses from the Pontifical Sacristy have never been on public display, but they and the other works included in Angels from the Vatican all share a motif in common: the depiction of angels by some of the most inspired artists of all time, truly the invisible made visible.

On leaving the museum - with a touch of gold fever - the traveler sees two immense and heavy monstrances, receptacles in which the consecrated Host is exposed for adoration.

Zealous clergymen conquering the New World under the banner of God and King built churches and missions which needed chalices, ciboriums, monstrances, alter bells, prayer frames and other silver items.